Thursday, July 23, 2015

Up Hurleston Locks Onto the Llangollen Canal

Eric happy he's on the Llangollen Canal

Old boats breasted up at Hurleston Junction

Waiting below Hurleston Locks

Today went up the flight of Locks at Hurleston ......what a palaver! The middle pound was low, the boat going up in front of us got stuck on the side and I asked the lock keeper to let down some water but he didn't and Eric couldn't get over the cill of the lock to leave it. So I walked up and let some down telling him we were stuck on the cill. Eric then managed to get out of the lock.

At the top we used the services before stopping at Bridge 5 on the Llangollen Canal. Eric's happy......it's his favourite canal.

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I retired from primary teaching in 2006 and am now living afloat with my husband Eric on our narrowboat called 'Bendigedig'. The name means wonderful. After ten years afloat we are still enjoying life. For several years we wintered in Llangollen in north Wales and then spent seven months cruising mainly canals with occasional rivers. Two years ago things changed as we felt we needed a home, somewhere to leave the boat when we needed to be in Newport. We now have a residential mooring at Whixall Marina which is lovely and quiet away from noisy roads and trains. We will use it as a base to cruise from when we get itchy feet in the Summer months. If we don't want to cruise it's great to have a home. We needed a car so we aren't totally cut off from the world, which also makes visiting our family so much easier. Although Ben the dog has been less active since he had meningitis he still enjoys life with us on the boat and loves to be out and about sniffing new smells on much shorter walks.